| To: | The Import-Export Company 27 Zapata Circle Tijuana, Mexico |
Mary had a little lamb. STOP
My dog has fleas. STOP
Mares eat oats and does eat oats, and I'll be home for Christmas. STOP
Your loving son,
Queen Victoria
Posted on 04/21/2006 12:01:43 PM PDT by Howlin
Edited on 04/21/2006 12:47:23 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Just breaking on Fox...
No details, but the agent was caught dead to rights leaking....
Update: CIA Officer Fired for Leaking Classified Info to Media
WASHINGTON — A CIA officer has been relieved of his duty after being caught leaking classified information to the media.
CIA officials will not reveal the officer's name, assignment, or the information that was leaked. The firing is a highly unusual move, although there has been an ongoing investigation into leaks in the CIA.
One official called this a "damaging leak" that deals with operational information and said the fired officer "knowingly and willfully" leaked the information to the media and "was caught."
"She'll be a hero/victim come Monday if MSM have their way."
BFD. That sure brings a tear to my eye ;)
Mary's name was "leaked" today. lol
Why waste a bullet? HANG HER!
DOH! Placemarker II
FOTFLOL!
And she's in our grip's now.
| To: | The Import-Export Company 27 Zapata Circle Tijuana, Mexico |
Mary had a little lamb. STOP
My dog has fleas. STOP
Mares eat oats and does eat oats, and I'll be home for Christmas. STOP
Your loving son,
Queen Victoria
A CIA official "called this a 'damaging leak' that deals with operational information and said the fired officer knowingly and willfully' leaked the information to the media and 'was caught.'" Fox reports that a law enforcement official stated that the leak related to the "secret prisons" in Europe that were disclosed by the Washington Post last year.
Meanwhile, the Justice Department says that "there [are] dozens of leak investigations under way." It seems likely that one of them relates to the leak of the NSA's terrorist surveillance program.
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/013830.php
Thanks for posting that transcript. These people cannot even speak plainly, and they were supposed to recognize threats from enemies? They all seem to have been engaged in gobbledegook.
I tend to think that Berger saw these memos from Clarke, and realized that the fact that nothing was done would be an embarrassment to the Clinton Administration. So he, Berger, decided he was going to "sanitize" the Archives file before it got to the 9/11 Commission. How he got away with doing this is one of those great untold Washington stories.
BTTT!
This woman has an advanced degree? Jeesh.
LOL
Ironically, Dana Priest was on a live chat yesterday for the WashToast just yesterday .. --
Excerpts:
Winnipeg, Canada: Congratulations on your Pulitzer. You reporting is the kind that is vital for a thriving democracy. How do you respond to people who have said you should be tried for treason instead?
Dana Priest: Well, calmly most of the time. Just because something is classified does not make it automatically something that the world shouldn't know about. We take the issue of national security damage very seriously and, in particular, in the secret prison stories, Len Downie, the executive editor, held back on naming the countries.
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Boston, Mass.: Kudos to you, Dana. I can imagine it is not always comfortable or easy doing the kind of investigative reporting you do where the pressure is most likely to drop it than pursue it, at least from representatives of the government, perhaps some of your sources and, heaven forbid, The Post editorial/publisher side itself.
Readers like myself, however, greatly appreciate the intellect, meticulous sourcing and follow through that you do. Where would a free press be without great journalists. The Pulitzer folks knew what they were doing!
I do have a question--let's say that the dust settles on the present administration and that the Congress is more of a brake on certain activities (like using foreign bases to do to prisoners what we cannot do here). Has the national security apparatus and the international alliances been shifted enough that a change in U.S. administrations is unlikely to change, truly, how we now do business? Or could a differently principled President or Congress actually put an end to the current shenanigans?
Dana Priest: I certainly think any change will bring a reassessment of the what I think of as some of the more controversial elements of the CIA"s war on terrorism. Not the fact that they've successfully established deeper intel relationships with countries around the world to hunt/disrupt terrorists and their support networks, but certainly on the issue of secret prisons and interrogation techniques.
If nothing else, I would think the new prez would want to assess the effectiveness of such things on actually gaining any new and valuable information and also the cost, in terms of the US strategic aims, of a decline in the standing of the US around the world--which has certainly occurred in the last several years, in part because of some of these methods.
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Arlington, Va.: No doubt about it, a free media is critical in a democratic system. However, it is not the media's job to determine whether or not information is classified. There are legal processes for declassifying documents.
And Congress, as the overseer of the intelligence community (residing in the executive branch), has the responsibility to deal with issues of excessive government secrecy, or not enough secrecy. When the media decides for itself whether or not documents should be declassified, they are breaking the law and should be prosecuted.
Dana Priest: Well, actually, the media is not breaking the law by publishing classified information. That's still a safeguard we have in the law. The person/s who turn it over are breaking the law, technically.
But the courts and the body politic have always looked at this as the cost of democracy and that is one huge reason why reporters have not be pursued previously. It's the trade off for having a free press. The alternative is prior censorship and government control of the media, a la Israel, China, Iran, etc.
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Cocky little twirp, isn't she?
Bookmarking
I want to see Mary's definition of technically.
So she is of the opinion that Israel controls their media in the same fashion as China and Iran? Maybe I'm a little off here....someone enlighten me.
technically .. the press doesn't get a free ride
technically it depends on the classified information and the intentions of using such classified information
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